(BASTI (ENEMA)
INDICATIONS FOR NON-UNCTUOUS BASTI
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- Those suffering from generalized vatika disorders
- Disorders of the abdomen
- Retention of flatus, feces, urine, semen
- Loss of defect of strength, complexion, muscles and semen
- Tympanitis
- Numbness in body parts
- Parasites
- Reverse movement of vayu
- Mature diarrhea (constant but not severe)
- Tearing pain in joints
- Burning sensation
- Splenomegaly
- Abdominal swelling
- Colic pain
- Heart disease
- Fistula-in-ano
- Insanity
- Fever
- Gradhna
- Pain in head and ears
- Stiffness in heart, sides, back and waist
- Trembling
- Convulsions
- Heaviness
- Excessive lightness
- Amenorrhea
- Irregular digestion
- Pain
- Wasting
- Stiffness in hip, knee, shanks, thigh, ankle, heels, feet, female genital track, arm, fingers, periphery of breasts, teeth, nails, joints
- Meteroism
- Cutting pain (in anal region)
- Scanty stool, with sound, intense foul smell and spasm, etc.
- And other specially name v±ta disorders named in the chapter on great diseases
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Those especially fit for unctuous basti include the above and the following:
- Those who are rough
- Have intense digestive fire
- Those suffering from pure vatika disorders
- In these unctuous enema is regarded as the most important one—like watering a plant at its roots.
CONTRAINDICATIONS FOR NON-UNCTUOUS BASTI (ENEMA)
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- Indigestion
- Over-uncted
- Having taken uncting substance (e.g. ghee internally)
- Excited doshas—e.g. vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding
- Mild digestion
- Exhausted by exercise, travel, etc.
- Weakness
- Thirst
- Hunger
- Exertion
- Emaciated
- Having just eaten / drank
- Having just undergone emesis
- Having just undergone purgation and snuffing
- In grip of anger, fear, and narcosis
- Constant vomiting or spitting
- Breathlessness (dyspnea)
- Cough
- Hiccup
- Obstructed, perforated, and ascitic abdomen
- Tympanitis
- Indigestion with stasis of food in stomach
- Indigestion with alternate diarrhea & constipation
- Premature delivery of fetus
- Diarrhea related to food poisoning of other toxicity
- Diabetes
- Abdominal swelling from tumors
- Acute fever
- Anemia
- Jaundice
- Stiffness in thighs with immobility and coldness
- Piles
- Having taken natural or artificial poison
- Disorders of pitta and kapha
- Blocking of channels
- Heaviness in bowels
- Filaria
- Goiter
- Scrofula
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